The Emmy nominations for 2017 will be announced Thursday morning, so it’s time to let you in on my last minute predictions!
The following are my predictions for all of the major categories for comedy, drama, limited series/TV movie, reality, and variety. With Game of Thrones out of the mix, there are numerous drama series vying for attention and I’m expecting big things for new dramas. You will see by Thursday how wrong my predictions end up being, as well as the few I get right.
COMEDY SERIES
Atlanta
black-ish
Master of None
Silicon Valley
Transparent
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
Veep
COMEDY LEAD ACTRESS
Allison Janney – Mom
Ellie Kemper – Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
Julia Louis-Dreyfus – Veep
Issa Rae – Insecure
Tracee Ellis Ross – black-ish
Lily Tomlin – Grace and Frankie
COMEDY LEAD ACTOR
Anthony Anderson – black-ish
Aziz Ansari – Master of None
Donald Glover – Atlanta
William H. Macy – Shameless
Thomas Middleditch – Silicon Valley
Jeffrey Tambor – Transparent
COMEDY SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Anna Chlumsky – Veep
Gaby Hoffmann – Transparent
Leslie Jones – Saturday Night Live
Jane Krakowski – Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
Judith Light – Transparent
Kate McKinnon – Saturday Night Live
COMEDY SUPPORTING ACTOR
Louie Anderson – Baskets
Alec Baldwin – Saturday Night Live
Tituss Burgess – Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
Ty Burrell – Modern Family
Tony Hale – Veep
Matt Walsh – Veep
COMEDY GUEST ACTRESS
Becky Ann Baker – Girls
Christine Baranski – The Big Bang Theory
Angela Bassett – Master of None
Carrie Fisher – Catastrophe
Melissa McCarthy – Saturday Night Live
Kristen Wiig – Saturday Night Live
COMEDY GUEST ACTOR
Aziz Ansari – Saturday Night Live
Dave Chappelle – Saturday Night Live
Josh Charles – Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
Tom Hanks – Saturday Night Live
Hugh Laurie – Veep
Peter Scolari – Girls
COMEDY DIRECTING
Atlanta (“B.A.N.”) – Donald Glover
Master of None (“The Thief”) – Aziz Ansari
Silicon Valley (“Server Error”) – Mike Judge
Transparent (“If I Were a Bell”) – Andrea Arnold
Veep (“Justice”) – Dale Stern
Veep (“Groundbreaking”) – David Mandel
COMEDY WRITING
Atlanta (“B.A.N.”) – Donald Glover
black-ish (“Lemons”) – Kenya Barris
Fleabag (“Episode 1”) – Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Master of None (“New York, I Love You”) – Aziz Ansari, Alan Yang, and Cord Jefferson
Silicon Valley (“Success Failure”) – Alec Berg
Veep (“Groundbreaking”) – David Mandel
DRAMA SERIES
The Americans
Better Call Saul
The Crown
The Handmaid’s Tale
Homeland
Stranger Things
This Is Us
DRAMA LEAD ACTRESS
Claire Danes – Homeland
Viola Davis – How to Get Away with Murder
Claire Foy – The Crown
Elisabeth Moss – The Handmaid’s Tale
Keri Russell – The Americans
Robin Wright – House of Cards
DRAMA LEAD ACTOR
Sterling K. Brown – This Is Us
Rami Malek – Mr. Robot
Bob Odenkirk – Better Call Saul
Matthew Rhys – The Americans
Liev Schreiber – Ray Donovan
Kevin Spacey – House of Cards
DRAMA SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Millie Bobby Brown – Stranger Things
Vera Farmiga – Bates Motel
Chrissy Metz – This Is Us
Thandie Newton – Westworld
Winona Ryder – Stranger Things
Yvonne Strahovski – The Handmaid’s Tale
DRAMA SUPPORTING ACTOR
Jonathan Banks – Better Call Saul
David Harbour – Stranger Things
Jared Harris – The Crown
Ron Cephas Jones – This Is Us
John Lithgow – The Crown
Michael McKean – Better Call Saul
DRAMA GUEST ACTRESS
Gillian Anderson – American Gods
Alexis Bledel – The Handmaid’s Tale
Laverne Cox – Orange Is the New Black
Ann Dowd – The Leftovers
Shannon Purser – Stranger Things
Alison Wright – The Americans
DRAMA GUEST ACTOR
Hank Azaria – Ray Donovan
Beau Bridges – Masters of Sex
Denis O’Hare – This Is Us
Gerald McRaney – This Is Us
Ben Mendelsohn – Bloodline
BD Wong – Mr. Robot
DRAMA DIRECTING
The Crown (“Hyde Park Corner”) – Stephen Daldry
The Handmaid’s Tale (“Offred”) – Reed Morano
Homeland (“America First”) – Leslie Linka Glatter
Stranger Things (“Chapter One: The Vanishing of Will Byers”) – The Duffer Brothers
Stranger Things (“Chapter Three: Holly, Jolly”) – Shawn Levy
Westworld (“The Bicameral Mind”) – Jonathan Nolan
DRAMA WRITING
The Americans (“The Soviet Division”) – Joel Fields and Joe Weisberg
Better Call Saul (“Chicanery”) – Gordon Smith
The Crown (“Assassins”) – Peter Morgan
The Leftovers (“The Book of Nora”) – Damon Lindelof, Tom Perrotta, and Tom Spezialy
Stranger Things (“Chapter One: The Vanishing of Will Byers”) – The Duffer Brothers
This Is Us (“Memphis”) – Dan Fogelman
LIMITED SERIES
American Crime
Big Little Lies
Fargo
Feud: Bette and Joan
The Night Of
TELEVISION MOVIE
Black Mirror: San Junipero
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Killing Reagan
Sherlock: The Lying Detective
The Wizard of Lies
LIMITED SERIES/MOVIE LEAD ACTRESS
Carrie Coon – Fargo
Nicole Kidman – Big Little Lies
Jessica Lange – Feud: Bette and Joan
Susan Sarandon – Feud: Bette and Joan
Oprah Winfrey – The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Reese Witherspoon – Big Little Lies
LIMITED SERIES/MOVIE LEAD ACTOR
Riz Ahmed – The Night Of
Benedict Cumberbatch – Sherlock: The Lying Detective
Robert De Niro – The Wizard of Lies
Ewan McGregor – Fargo
Geoffrey Rush – Genius
John Turturro – The Night Of
LIMITED SERIES/MOVIE SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Judy Davis – Feud: Bette and Joan
Laura Dern – Big Little Lies
Regina King – American Crime
Sarah Paulson – American Horror Story: Roanoke
Mary Elizabeth Winstead – Fargo
Shailene Woodley – Big Little Lies
LIMITED SERIES/MOVIE SUPPORTING ACTOR
Hank Azaria – The Wizard of Lies
Martin Freeman – Sherlock: The Lying Detective
Alfred Molina – Feud: Bette and Joan
Michael Stuhlbarg – Fargo
David Thewlis – Fargo
Stanley Tucci – Feud: Bette and Joan
LIMITED SERIES/MOVIE DIRECTING
Big Little Lies – Jean-Marc Vallée
Fargo (“The Law of Vacant Places”) – Noah Hawley
Feud: Bette and Joan (“And The Winner Is… [The Oscars Of 1963]”) – Ryan Murphy
The Night Of (“The Beach”) – Steven Zaillian
Sherlock: The Lying Detective – Nick Hurran
The Wizard of Lies – Barry Levinson
LIMITED SERIES/MOVIE WRITING
Big Little Lies – David E. Kelley
Black Mirror: San Junipero – Charlie Brooker
Fargo (“The Law of Vacant Places”) – Noah Hawley
Feud: Bette and Joan (“Pilot”) – Jaffe Cohen, Michael Zam, and Ryan Murphy
The Night Of (“The Call of the Wild”) – Richard Price & Steven Zaillian
Sherlock: The Lying Detective – Steven Moffat
REALITY-COMPETITION PROGRAM
The Amazing Race
American Ninja Warrior
Dancing With the Stars
RuPaul’s Drag Race
Top Chef
The Voice
REALITY HOST
Alec Baldwin – Match Game
Tom Bergeron – Dancing With the Stars
RuPaul Charles – RuPaul’s Drag Race
Steve Harvey – Little Big Shots
Heidi Klum & Tim Gunn – Project Runway
Jeff Probst – Survivor
VARIETY TALK SERIES
Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
Jimmy Kimmel Live
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
The Late Late Show with James Corden
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
VARIETY SKETCH SERIES
Billy on the Street
Documentary Now!
Drunk History
Portlandia
Saturday Night Live
Watch Shemar Moore and Anna Chlumsky announce the Emmy nominations live at 11:30 a.m. ET/8:30 a.m. PT at Emmys.com.